Joseph Schenk, 71, a farmer residing at St. Phillips in Marrstownship, died at 6 p.m. Monday (25 Jul 1955)

at his home after a brief illness.

He was a life-long resident of the St. Phillips community.
His parents were George Schenk and Margaret Schrephter
Schenk.

The body is at the Miller & Miller Funeral Home at 219 East Franklin street in Evansville and will remain there until Thursday
afternoon when it will be taken to the late residence.

Requiem High Mass will be conducted at St. Philip Catholic Church
by Father Charles Kaiser, pastor, at 8 a.m. Friday. Burial will be in the
church cemetery. Mr. Schenk was a member of the Men's Society and Poor
Souls' Society of St. Phillip Church.

Surviving are
the wife, Blandina; a son Urban, St. Phillips; four
daughters, Mrs. John Wagner, and Mrs. Lawrence F. Titzer,
both of R. R. 2, Chandler, Mrs. Norbert Spellmeyer
and Mrs. ServinSpellmeyer,
both of Jasper; 15 grandchildren; a sister, Sister Clara, O.S. B. Ferdinand,
and a half-sister, Mrs. Margaret Fluri, Evansville.